Sources
Alexievich, S., Hammond, K., & Lezhneva, L. (1995). "I Am Loath to Recall": Russian Women Soldiers in World War II. Women's Studies Quarterly, 23(3/4), 78-84. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/40003502
Primary source of a woman in the Soviet military during WWII
Van Creveld, M. (2000). The Great Illusion: Women in the Military. Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 29(2), 429–442. https://doi.org/10.1177/03058298000290021101
History of women in the military
Campbell, D. (1993). Women in Combat: The World War II Experience in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union. The Journal of Military History, 57(2), 301–323. https://doi.org/10.2307/2944060
https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205195551
photograph of British Auxiliary Territorial Service in action